Patricia Fletcher earned her Master of Arts in Voice and Speech from Antioch University, and is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has worked as Speech, Dialect, Voice, and Audition Coach for actors both on and Off-Broadway, in feature and independent films, documentaries and television, and has been a guest artist at many colleges and universities.

Her highly acclaimed textbook, Classically Speaking – Dialects for Actors, is used in university, conservatory and actor training programs throughout the United States and abroad.

In addition to teaching at the New School for Drama and the William Esper Acting Studio, she has also taught for Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Actors Studio Drama School, Brooklyn College, and the New Actors Workshop. Ms. Fletcher has appeared as an actress on Broadway, Off Broadway, in regional theatre, film, and television.

In her 20 plus years of acting and teaching, Patricia has coached a wide range of stage and screen actors including Harvey Keitel, Lynn Redgrave, Jean Reno, Drea De Matteo, Elias Koteas, Gina Gershon, Michael Esper, Aaron Sanford, Leïla Bekhti, Géraldine Nakache, Manu Payet, Carman Lacivita, as well as business professionals at Court TV, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, IBM, among others.

Abroad, she has served as a member of the American delegation to the International Theatre Institute 23rd World Congress in Marseilles, to the Swedish Theatre Union Biennial in Våxjo, and as panelist for the Dürrenmatt Theatre Festival in Singapore, at the invitation of the Swiss Embassy. Patricia’s work was the subject of a featured article in the May 2007 edition of MORE Magazine, “The Sound of Experience” by Amanda Robb.